River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-10-13
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case in the indictments of all proprietors OF
gambling houses in the city under the state
law was called for trial The case was that
OF The state VS.. r. Keenan,, alias Jim
wilson He entered a plea of guilty and
was fined $50 or Imprisonment for forty
I'VE days in the county Jail and to pay all 4
costs of prosecution. There are eight or
ten more cases.
Capt. Ben. Knapp. widely known
among steamboat men on the St Croix
and Mississippi rivers died at his home at
Osceola, Mimi. For year past Capt. i
Knapp has been afflicted with a throat +
trouble. but was able to attend TO his /
steamboat business until about two weeks 1
ago when he was taken TO his bed. Blood !
poisoning was the cause of his death He 1
was thirty years old. He leaves a wife and l
two children.
Little Falls, Mimi, Special: James !
McClinty and Charles Young, farmers near
this village, who were arrested last August
on the charge of stealing goods from a car
on the Northern Pacific road, have been
convicted of the crime and were each
sentenced TO two years in Saltwater. The
stolen articles consisted of box of goods
consigned by Lindeke, Walne a. Schur-
meier St Paul to $. Rudowski OF this
place.
At Mandan, Oak. an unsuccessful
attempt was made TO kill Supt. Greene, of
the Missouri division, Northern Pacific
railway. A man named Kelly had been
working for the road as brakeman and
claimed 40 cents more than had been paid.
lie pulled a Winchester. fired and just
missed Greene's head. The bullet went
through a window casing. Kelly was
arrested.
At St. Cloud, Mimi, negro pris-
oneT awaiting trial for picking pockets,
dug out of the Jail. The sheriff heard
noise and got in Just in time TO keep the
rest of his boarders. The escaped prisoner
is very large man and gave the name of
w. I'll. Seeley. A burglar entered Mrs.
Helen Moore's residence aud secured a few
small articles, when he was frightened
away.
Fire at Owatopna. Mimi, destroyed
the Winona q st. Peter elevator and CON
tents, about 5000 bushels of wheat, the
large storebouse OF N T.. Harson, and the
water tank Of the Winona a. St. Peter road.
Loss on elevator about 5000; war house
and contents, 81, 100; tank and tracks, 500
Insurance on most of the property. How
the fire originated is mystery.
The 3-masted schooner City of Green
Bay went ashore near South Haven, Mich,
the sea coming over her in such violence as
soon TO break her up, and she fell apart
with seven souls aboard, only one of whom,
a seamen named A. I. Slater of st. Joseph
was saved. Capt. CASTILLO, her command
er, and the other five of his crew of SIX men
were drowned.
At Des Moines, Iowa, in the case of
Pence VS. the Chicago, Rock Island a. Pacif-
| ic II. r., tried in the district court the jury
returned verdict for the plaintiff in the
\ sum OF S24OOO for personal injuries received.
| Pence was crossing the road when a train
ran into his wagon, Gripping him for life.
The suit was brought to recover $4,000.
Judge Berry of the Minnesota State
Supreme Court is lying seriously ill at his
home at Minneapolis with paralysis of his
! right arm and hand, affecting TO some ex-
/ tent his whole system. While ii is thought
recovery in a measure is probable the
| opinion is expressed that he will not be
able to again SIT upon the bench.
The City Council of st. Paul, Mimi.
have fixed the tax levy for the ensuing
year at 20 mills, which will provide
revenue of Sl,044,200, the receipts from
licenses and other sources being estimated
! at $296, 600, the two items providing $780,
20l, which the city government will cost
next year
At Sioux Falls, Oak, Christine
Peterson, single woman twenty-eight
years old, committed suicide by shooting
| herself in the head. This was her fourth
attempt at self destruction since her dis.
charge from the lunatic asylum at st.
Peter, Mimi, five weeks ago.
Mason City, Iowa, has had satur-
mile of incendiary fires the same break
/ ing out in different places at the same time
and calling out the firemen three and four
times day. The large stock barn of Vol
ney Giddings was burned with a large
amount of hay and grain. One alleged
incendiary has been arrested.
At Des Moines, Iowa, Judge Given
granted a change of venue TO Boone county
in the cases of j. Reed Hurlbut and Joseph
| Row, indicted on charges of killing Con-
stable Logan last winter while attempting
/ to make liquor seizure and arrest. The
plea was that justice could not be obtained
in Polk county.
A strange freak of nature is reported
in East Dubuque. Iowa. child was born
to Mr. and Mrs. Bohn without eyes. The
place where the eyes should be is covered
by smooth skin and a surgical operation
revealed no indications whatever of an OPP
tical formation. The child is otherwise
perfect.
Engineer Oscar Prentice, of the
Manitoba road, received fatal injuries at
Glasston, Oak. He got out of the engine
70 help chain up car, the drawhead hav-
ing been pulled out. While between the
| cars thus occupied, the brakeman, thinking
/ he was out. signaled the fireman to back up,
catching Prentice just above the waist be-
! tween the cars. He is a married man and
! lived at Grand Forks.
Lincoln MacVeagh, son of Ex-
Attorney General MacVeagh, was married
at ST. Paul, Mimi, to q daughter of Gen.
John b. Hammond MIR. MacNeagh Sr. with
his family were present at the wedding,
coming from Philadelphia, Pa. IN a special
car The young couple are to reside at Chi
cage.
An Emporia, Kas., special says:
Fire destroyed the Merchants hotel, the
livery stable of J. r. Mckenzie and the
| agricultural implement store of Griffith a.
| Ewing Loss, $4,000; insurance, $500.
| Mrs NJ. Z. Schmidtling to whom the hotel
belonged, is the heaviest loser.
AT Rockford, H., Rev. Norman Ran
som of Grandin, Oak. "a Methodist Episcopal
clergyman, died suddenly of typhoid fever.
be was a member of the North Dakota con-
ference The deceased was a son of DIR.
Ransom of Roscoe, Illinois.
At Des Moines, Iowa, Judge Given
has decided that registered pharmacists are
not subject to criminal prosecution for vic
lation of the liquor law They must be
proceeded against in civil action to revoke
their pharmacy permits
Gov. Church, Secretary Mccormack
Auditor Ward, Railroad Commissioner
Smith Of Dakota, Editor Jewell of Bis
marck, Hon. ID. Lawler of Mitchell,
gathered at st. Paul to pay their respects
to President Cleveland.
In the Hall & Ducey mill, at
Minneapolis L. Bennett was thrown on to
the cogs of the big bull wheel and his right
arm drawn in up to the shoulder crushing
it into a shapeless pulp. He cannot live.
The Waseca, Mimi, fair was great
success in attendance and exhibits.